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Thought Wave Machine (Rocket's Secret Machine) 096/105 Neo Destiny 1st Edition Pokémon card

Rare

Thought Wave Machine (Rocket's Secret Machine) 096/105 · Neo Destiny · 1st Edition

No reliable market price (asking prices far above recent sales)

Last recorded $35.70 — asking prices far above recent sales

Listing context limited

TCGplayer listings · Snapshot Oct 1, 2026

The listed median is more than three times the recent-sales market price. That gap can reflect a thin market or unrealistic asks.

USD · across conditions · before shipping. Asking prices are not completed sales; listing and seller counts are not supplied.

Not enough usable asking-price history to draw yet.

Recent snapshots
DateListed medianMarket price
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Before you buy

No reliable price

It rarely trades, and is widely printed.

Price

No reliable price

Median asking prices sit far above the recent-sales market price, so this price fails our reliability check.

Versus the market

Not enough trading to say

Its listings are too thin to trust the price, so it is not compared with the market.

The next 60 days

No forecast

The price isn't reliable enough to project (asking prices far above recent sales), so no range or chance of beating the market is shown.

Buying and selling

Rarely trades

9% of our price checks saw it move

The price shown may be stale; expect to wait.

Scarcity

Widely printed

Rare: 6,033 of the cards we track (14%).

Grading

Cannot say

Grading maths starts from a reliable raw price.

Compare this card's TCGplayer market price, listing prices, historical range and model outlook before you buy. Research for collectors; not personal investment advice.

Price history

No forecast

The price isn't reliable enough to project (asking prices far above recent sales), so no range or chance of beating the market is shown.

$10.00$20.00$30.00 Today Nov 2025Jan 2026MarMayJulSep
$10.00$20.00$30.00 Today Mar 2024SepMarSepMarSep
Price

Card analysis: Why it scores where it does

87

Notable

87 out of 100. It ranks above 88% of the cards we track.

Seller confidenceSellers holding firm
Price steadinessJumpy price
1-month trendClimbing this month
Near its highNear its 12-month high
Listing tightnessScattered listings
2-month trendFirmer than most over 2 months

Each ingredient is weighted by how well it has preceded price moves in this market's own history. The exact weights and readings are in The full read.

The full read

Every question we ask of a card, and every number behind the answers.
Forecast: not usable (asking prices far above recent sales)Set: vintage

Price history, listings and card analysis

Thought Wave Machine (Rocket's Secret Machine) 096/105 Neo Destiny 1st Edition (1st Edition).

Beating the market, or just riding it?

Not enough trading to say

Its listings are too thin to trust the price, so it is not compared with the market.

Describes the last 2 months, not what happens next. Not investment advice.

Is this card interesting right now?

Scores 87, but do not trust it

Median asking prices are 7.7x the recent-sales market price. That gap can reflect outlier asks or a thin market; it does not tell us how many copies are listed. Check the listings before believing this ranking. The score is computed the same way as for every other card, and on this one the ingredients are being fed by a listing that does not represent a real market. Treat the ranking as unreliable until the listings look normal again.

Why is it interesting?

Not meaningful here

Median asking prices sit far above the recent-sales market price, so this price fails our reliability check. The ingredients are read off those listings, so they describe one seller's price rather than the card.

Is it becoming more popular?

Not enough trading to say

Median asking prices sit far above the recent-sales market price, so this price fails our reliability check. A trend measured from that figure would say nothing about how the card is doing against the market.

Is it expensive or cheap?

No reliable price - last recorded $35.70

Median asking prices sit far above the recent-sales market price, so this price fails our reliability check. The last recorded figure is shown for reference only, so it is not ranked against the rest of its set. The listings and recent sales on TCGplayer are the place to judge what a copy costs.

What makes this card unusual?

A Rare from a 25-year-old set

Rare is a widely printed rarity - 6,033 tracked cards share it. This is the 1st Edition printing, which is priced as a completely separate market from the other printings of the same artwork. The set is about 25 years old, so surviving copies in good condition get scarcer over time.

Could you actually buy or sell it?

Slowly - it rarely trades

The price changed in 9% of our checks over the past year across 359 observations. TCGplayer's market price only updates when a copy sells, so a low figure means the price shown may be stale and any trend reading is built on very few real sales.

How does the grading fee compare?

Cannot say - no reliable price

Median asking prices sit far above the recent-sales market price, so this price fails our reliability check. The grading maths starts from what a raw copy is worth, so there is nothing to work it out from. We track raw ungraded prices only - no graded sales and no population data. We cannot assess this copy's condition or tell you what a PSA 10 is worth. Check condition and comparable graded sales before deciding whether grading would pay off.

The score's ingredients

IngredientWeightEffect on the scoreTrack record
Seller confidence30%+0.582Strong record
Price steadiness10%-0.081Weak record
1-month trend16%+0.030Strong record
Near its high5%+0.014Consistent record
Listing tightness6%-0.006No measured edge
2-month trend14%+0.006Consistent record
Unusual move16%+0.004Strong record
4-month trend3%+0.003Consistent record

Every number behind this page

Last recorded price$35.70Not a market price: asking prices far above recent sales
Cheapest listing$159.99The lowest price anyone is currently asking
Middle of listings$274.84The midpoint of what sellers are asking
Seller confidence+669.9%Read off listings that are not a real market
1-month trend vs market+1.7%Measured from a price that is not reliable
2-month trend vs market+0.3%Measured from a price that is not reliable
4-month trend vs market+0.7%Measured from a price that is not reliable
Versus same-set, same-rarity cards-1.8%Shown for interest only — this one is not part of the score
Unusual move+0.2Within its normal range of movement
Below its 12-month high-0.1%At or near its high
Day-to-day price movement0.0249Jumpy
How often it trades9%Rarely trades — the price shown may be stale
Price checks on record359Observations in the past year
Times the price changed32How many of those were real moves
Actively tradedYesWhether there is enough activity for the trend figures to mean anything
Set age24.6 yearsVintage
Interest score88 / 100Ranks above 88% of tracked cards
TCGplayer product ID89,898For looking it up elsewhere